Good Morning Israel–

Good Morning Israel won first prize at the Jerusalem Film Festival, was commended by Israeli Film Institute, received United Studios’ award and Delta Film award.

A weekday morning in the lives of 5 boys: A boy from a kibbutz, a boy from North Tel Aviv, a boy from a development town, an Arab boy and an Orthodox Jewish boy. A most similar hour in their lives, a microcosm of Israeli society.

Good Morning Israel – 10 years later

Ten years after filming the award winning “Good Morning Israel”, Har-Gil returns to find out what has changed in the lives of the boys he filmed in his first film, in order to understand through them the changes Israeli society underwent.

Good Morning Israel – 20 years later

Good Morning Israel –20 yeas later it’s a project Amir Har-Gil started upon finishing his cinema studies. Twenty years ago Har-Gil described a routine weekday in the lives of the 5 children: Meir from Kibbutz Ma’abarot, Yossi from Ofakim development town, Saar from Ramat Aviv Gimel, Mundar from Taybeh and Yehoshua from Kfar Chabbad – through the most similar hour in their lives, the morning hour up to their arrival at school – creating a microcosm of Israeli society. Ten years later he returned to create another film that was screened on the Eve of Independence Day embarking on a journey to find our has changed with the various characters and what has changed in him, himself. Twenty years ago he focused on the most similar hour in their lives, the hour of awakening until their arrival to school. At the time the differences between the children were conspicuous, their world views, their socio economic conditions, their beliefs and their hopes were different. The film won many awards and wide media attention. Thirty years later the director returned once more to the protagonists to find out what happened to them. Their story is the story of the country, of hopes and values that have changed, of economic and cultural gaps. Some of the boys don’t live in the places they grew up in anymore and stereotypical divisions are more complex. When the protagonists were filmed the second time in their twenties, all were bachelors without children, before studies, still deliberating about possible directions they should take, still trying to find their way among various possibilities. At the time of the third filming they had already made their decisions, have chosen their paths. What is more attractive? Should they go on in the ways of their parents? Should they endeavor to improve the place where they grew up in, the country in which they developed? Should they care only for themselves? Do they think alike or do they think differently? Are they alike or different from other youths born in various social sectors? What do thirty-year-olds think of themselves, about the country’s future and their own future? A similar project called 7Up was carried out in England, however “Good Morning Israel” is different. In England the emphasis was on the individual: can one predict what will become of a seven-year-old born in a particular environment? They examined each individual separately. “Good Morning Israel” twenty years later endeavored to examine thirty-year old persons as an age cohort representing a generation, representing Israeli society, Israeli youth.